return status code 409 overwritten

[Erik Eide]

Hi

I've a small REST web service, I'd like to deploy in Tomcat 5.5.12.

When I try and return status code 409 (Conflict) and an error message
in the response body for a POST operation, Tomcat seems to overwrite
the status code with a 404 (Not Found).

If I do not return a response body, the original status code 409 is
retained. RFC 2616 seems to suggest that its cool to return a response
body with a 409, so I wonder if there is something else I'm doing
incorrectly or have forgotten to configure ?

Sample:

    public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, IOException {
        OutputStreamWriter writer = new
OutputStreamWriter(response.getOutputStream());
        writer.write("Entity already exists");
        response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_CONFLICT);
    }

Env:

XP SP2, Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_05-b05, mixed mode)

Regards
Erik

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